The Civil War in the East

124th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

 

The 124th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment lost 1 officer and 17 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 36 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

It is honored by a monument at Antietam.

1862

August

Organized at Harrisburg under Colonel Joseph W. Hawley, Lt. Colonel Simon Litzenberg and Major I. Law Haldeman

August 12

Left State for Washington, D.C. and camp near Fort Albany, Defenses of Washington

September 7

March to Rockville, Md., and attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September 7-24

Maryland Campaign

September 16-17

Battle of Antietam

The regiment lost 5 killed, 42 seriously wounded and 17 missing. Colonel Hawley was wounded, and Major Haldeman took command.

September 18

Burying dead

September 19-20

March to Pleasant Valley, Md.

October

At Maryland Heights; attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps

October 30

At Loudon Heights

November 8-19

Reconnaissance up the Shenandoah Valley

November 20

Near Harper's Ferry

December 10-15

March to Fredericksburg, Va., then to Fairfax Station

1863

January 20-24

Burnside's 2nd Campaign, "Mud March," attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 12th Army Corps

February-April

At Stafford Court House

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

May 1-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

 

Ordered to Harrisburg, Pa.

May 16

Mustered out